Life is one long process of getting tired.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Plato

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

David Rockefeller

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

Edward Dahlberg

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

James Q. Wilson

Never wound a snake; kill it.

Harriet Tubman

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

Maximilian Schell

All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire.... Greece will never see me again.

Eleftherios Venizelos

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Boz Scaggs

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Danny Boyle

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

Jeffrey Kluger

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

William Shakespeare